Anchor Brewing Co. announces a new brewery in waterfront Mission Rock development

Artist renderings of the exterior of the proposed Anchor Brewing's Pier 48 Brewery.

The Chronicle’s Andrew S. Ross reports that Anchor Brewing Co. and the San Francisco Giants have announced that Anchor is the first tenant for the $1.6 billion Mission Rock development project, just south of the ballpark.

However, it won’t be the first time the local baseball team has played in the shadow of a brewery; Peter Hartlaub tweets that the old Seals Stadium was next door to the old Rainer Brewery (see more on Rainer here).

Artist renderings of the interior.

But getting back to the new Anchor brewery. Located on Pier 48, the massive new space will allow for some big Anchor expansion into new markets:

Anchor Brewing Co. will occupy what is now Pier 48 with production and distribution facilities, a restaurant, museum and other public attractions. The 212,000-square-foot space is an addition to Anchor Brewing’s existing plant on Potrero Hill, and will quadruple the company’s output from 120,000 to 600,000 barrels a year.

Construction won’t even begin for another year, and the brewery won’t be built until the end of 2016 (and that’s still a maybe), but still, that’s quite the opening splash for the Mission Rock development. Err, splash hit?